Recently screened at this year's Sundance Film Festival, I've been looking forward to the release of this 30 minutes short film by Spike Jonze. After watching Where the Wild Things Are, I really appreciate and respect him for being committed to his art. The movie was produced at a budget of $100 million, which is probably due to the live-action concept (it was supposed to be an animation version) Spike Jonze decided to undertake. What a risk that must have been.
This time around, Spike Jonze collaborated with Absolut to produce this film- a love story between two robots. I guess it had all the potential in the world to turn out cheesy. I mean, they're robots...those wired up things just don't fall in love. They sweep floors and annoy humans with their inadequacy, that's what they do.
In this film, a robot librarian named Sheldon lived a mundane and solitary life, devoid of any joy and inspiration- until he met a female robot whose adventurous and free-spirited nature changed him. Through a series of events that took place which altered her life, Sheldon discovers he has a lot to give. The entire film is showing on the official website and like a sucker for all things strangely romantic, I was sobbing at the end of it- at a bittersweet love story of two robots. True story.
Gonna watch it a couple more times!
<3,
Nat
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